Fusee-cap.



F. DUTGHBR.`

FUSEE GAP.

APPLIoA'rIoN FILED AUG. a, 1907.

Patented Sept. 21; 1909.

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F. DUTGHER..

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APPLICATION FILED AUG. 8, 1907.

Patented Sept. 21, 1909.

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YL! l ii||lJ FRANK DUTCI-IER, F VERSAILLES, PENNSYLVANIA.

FUSEE-CAP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 8 Y1907'. Serial No.

To all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK DUTCHER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ver# sailles, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements 1n Fusee- Caps, of which the iollo'wm-g 1s a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.V v

This invention relates to improvements in fusee caps, and the objects of the present improvements are'First: To Vform the tube for the cap and its label from a single sheet; Second: To form from a single papera tube Vhaving a plurality of of paper. sheet of labels, so that the tube may be severed at points between the labels'to produce several labeled cap-tubes from the one sheet of i paper. lThird: To form afusee cap-tube from a, single sheet of paper with igniting materiallocated between the outer: end of, the rolled sheet and the body of the tube.4

Fourth: The -specific arrangement of'the parts.v whereby certain additional improved results and objects are accomplished which will be fully explained hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings Figure lA is alplan view of a printed sheet from which Ithe pa `er tube is rolled 01 formed. Fig. 2

is a si e View of the tube formed from the printed rolled sheet. Fig. 3 is an enlarged side view of a portion `of the tube,xw,ith the over-lappingend of the sheet broken away from 'the body'eof the tube. tional View (in .the line Ll-et' of Fig. Fig. 5 is a perspective .View of-apsegregated portion of thetube shown miFigfS, and from whichtlie cap is to beftrmed. Fig. 6 is a similar View with the igniting material applied to the body portion of the tube 1n position to be covered orembraced by the" separated end of 'the sheet from which tlle e is formed. Fig. 7 is a 'similar View showin the removing strip applied. Fig.

perspective view of the tube 8 is a etached with the igniting material 'and removing strip applied and the separated 'end of the sheet pasted bach-.the tube beingready to 'have one'end'- thereof closed.y Fig. 9 is a .vertical sectional central view of the completed tube with the extended end crimped and compressed inwardly to form a closure for one end ofthe tube, the extended end which .has been closed inward'being shown' in y, dotted lines. Fig. 10 is a perspective the unprinted edge Athen permitted to dry Fig. 4 is a sec could be held in position by end.

In making the improved fusee cap a sheet of suitable paper l has printed at and .near

one edge a plurality of labels 2, and these printed portionsk of the sheet are separated by the spaces 3 for a purpose to be presently explained. This sheet is then rolled vinto a tube, .the/.rolling operation beginning from that when the tube is rolled the printed porA tions are on the outside of tbe tube as shown Ain Fig. 2. In rolling the sheet it is rstcoated' on the imprinted side or face with paste, which unites or cements' the rolled sheet into tubular form. The damp tube is v in any well known way. The result is a dry tube with a pluralitypf printed labels. on the outside there-` -oi separated by blank spaces. The Vnext step is to break' away'v or loosen a' portion of the rolled sheet as shown in Fig. 4; The tube is then severed -at a point ycent the lower edge of each of the printed portions designated as f cutting lines in Fig.' 3, the result being a plurality of short tubes like that shown invFig. 5 with the printed edge of the sheet separated from the body of the tube. This tube Whichis to Y constitute a fusee cap is the'n provided with a. suitable amountor batch of igniting material 4 at a point to be covered or embraced by the loosened printed portion 54 of the sheet when it is repasted. A label removing or igniting' material exposing strip 6 is thenplacedat a point to cover the terial and is made longer than the tube shown in Fig. 7 Preferably this tape@ has its upper end temporarily pasted to the body of the tube-above the igniting material to hold it in position when the loose portion 5 is repasted in position. However the strip the opera'tf While the-loosened portion 5 was being re. pasted. A fter the portion 5 has'been repasted the result is' a short tube containing printed directions or label and a removing tape withl a projecting end to enable vthe sheet from which the tube is formed to be broken away for exposing the igniting inat'erial. The blank, spaces 3 between the lprinted portions is to form an extended -end 6 on the completed tube as shown in Fig. 8, the extended end to be crimped and c`oinpressed inwardly to-form a closure forone view of the completed cap with the closedv or end of the sheet, so

Patented Sept. 21,1.

at or adjae Y igniting maric end of the tube in .the manner fully explained and claimed in a (zo-pending application of mine. f l

A fusee cap constructed as herein shown and described avoids the necessity of providing a. separate label; of providing a separate closure for the 'tube -of which it is formed, and it provides a tough and substantially waterproof protection for the igniting material.

I desire to be understood that the advan- :tages of that feature of the invention brought about by placing the igniting material and the removing tape between the outer end of the rolled sheet and the body of the tube may be had Without printing the label directly on the sheet of which the roll is made. I desire to also be understood that certain features of the improvement can be utilized if the sheet is only wide enough to make a single tube like that shown in Figs. 5, G, and 7. While I prefer to loosen the end of the sheet from the lon tube shown in Fig. 2, yet it would be readi y understood that the .long tube can first be severed into 1theshort tube sections, and the end of the sheet of each tube section loosened. All these and other modifications of the improvement will occur to persons. skilled in this art and I do not therefore limit myself to the precise description and construction.

Havlng thusV described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters'Iatent is:

1. As an article of manufacture, a fusee cap consisting of a liber sheet wrapped sufficiently to form a tube having a stift wall, the sheet having a removable outer end, and igniting material secured to the Wall under the removable end of the sheet.

2. As an article of manufacture, a fusee cap consisting of a fiber sheet wrapped suliiciently to form a tube having a stiff wall, the sheet having a removable outer end, ignitng material secured to the wall under the removable end, and a removing tape between the igniting material and said removable end, one end of the tape projecting beyond said removable -end for the purpose described'.

An improved fusee cap consisting of a tube formed from a sheet of wrapped fiber having ignting material and a removing tape located between the walls of the wrapped portion of the sheet,4 and the wall of one end of the tube and the end of the tape crimped and compressed inwardly to form a closure for the tube.

In testimony whereof I 'atlix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRANK DUTCHER.

Vllitnesses CHARLEs MOORE, ARCH Osoimn. 

